John Mitchell Quotes
If you write to a title, the song sort of writes itself. I don’t find making music to be too problematic. It’s all the third party nonsense surrounding music that I don’t deal with so well.
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People said, 'How could you walk away from music?' But being a dad - there's nothing that can touch that.
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I was playing sports all the time, and my parents, Anne and John, encouraged me to play in grade school and high school.
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The American people do not want their taxpayer dollars funding any activity that runs counter to the security of our nation or our ally Israel.
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My father is a silent cinema freak, so he took me to 1925 silent films that took forever, like 5-hour movies, but I've seen a lot of that stuff since I was young. And then I saw the film 'Annie,' and I just wanted to be Annie; I just wanted to be that orphan kid and wanted to sing and dance.
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It's like everybody is shooting something, and everybody's a filmmaker; everybody can shoot a cat video and post it. So the big thing now is - for people that have talent and have something to say, and are creative, and are capable of making something good - is how do they get attention to it?
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I like power and I like to use it.
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Anti-religious sneers are a hallmark of perpetual adolescents.
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My confidence comes from me, not from Jon Jones. I can't draw my confidence from another person.
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Life is a song - sing it. Life is a game - play it. Life is a challenge - meet it. Life is a dream - realize it. Life is a sacrifice - offer it. Life is love - enjoy it.
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I almost got a psychology degree, I almost got a philosophy degree. I kept changing it so they couldn't make me graduate. I studied anthropology and eastern religion, epistomology, and astronomy... I took every interesting course I could find for nine years.
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I went to private school my whole life. Growing up in Los Angeles, you're surrounded by not just Connecticut privilege but, like, your-dad's-a-movie-star privilege.
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I don't know what 'normal' means, anyway.
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I'm trying to have some longevity in this business. If that means not working for a while and just picking the right job, so be it.
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Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.
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Something I learned when I was very young: with cooking, it doesn't matter where you are; you can always cook. You can end up in small village in Peru where somebody's cooking, take a spoon and taste it, and you might not be too sure what you're eating, but you can taste the soul in the food. That's what is beautiful with food.
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We said from the very beginning that we're in this for the long haul.
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If anything, the power of the cover of 'Time' has increased as the media landscape has atomized.
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We've done enough - and made enough mistakes - to pretty well know how to guide our careers ourselves.
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We do need different types of propulsion to get to Mars. I wrote one of the first Ph.D. theses on that in the 1960s.
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The lucky man is he who knows how much to leave to chance.
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Our system never treated the failure of prison as a reason not to try more prison.
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I write the songs, go in and record them, then I listen to everything and decide how it all fits together.
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Half of San Antonio's population is of Mexican descent; the other half just eats that way.
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If you write to a title, the song sort of writes itself. I don’t find making music to be too problematic. It’s all the third party nonsense surrounding music that I don’t deal with so well.
